Notable Accomplishments • Successfully convinced IT director at Peregrine Pharmaceuticals that Microsoft Forefront Endpoint provided inadequate protection. Recommended ESET Endpoint Antivirus and Malwarebytes Enterprise, which were purchased and deployed as a result.• When interviewed at Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, was the only candidate to pass the competency assessment, which was to reassemble a dismantled laptop and resolve several intentionally introduced issues. Also, found two problems not purposely created.• At Brandman University, vetted a number of enterprise class Ethernet switch brands and models to select the most appropriate for a 25 campus, university-wide upgrade. Recommended Juniper EX4200 Series layer 3 switches and enumerated 14 features that qualified them as the best choice. Successfully dissuaded the Director of IT from using NetGear switches.• Only known person to have gotten College Board CLEP testing software to run reliably on a wireless network. The CLEP technical support staff was impressed as the only other University that had attempted this, abandoned the project because of the technical challenges.